Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-05-03

with villainy. Ye authors who write them,
We publishers who print them, We booksellers
who Distribute them shall be cut to pieces. II
not by an aroused community, then at last by
the hail Of Divine vengeance, which shall
sweep TO the lowest pit Of perdition all
ye murderers OF souls ] tell you, though
you may escape in this world, You win
be ground at last nnder lie hoot % eternal
! calamities, and you VII y chained to the
rock, and you will have TIE vultnres Of de-
pair claw ing at your Sbnl. ard thdse whom
you have destroyed will come around to tor
nentyou, and to pour hotter Goals Of fury
upon your head, and rejoice eternally in the
cutlery II your pain and the bowl Qf sypnr
damnation. God shall wound Tie hairy
scalp Of him that goeth ION IL Bisltfespa y
The clock strikes midnight. A fair form
bends over romance. The eyes fash fire.
The breath Is quick and irregular. Qcca
sionally the color faShe4 to the check land
then dies out The habds tren1biS De though
aGpardian spirit gWerS trying 70 shake the
deadly book out Of the grasp. Hot tears fall
She laughs with shrill voice that dsops dead
Tits own sound. The sweat On her brow =
the spray dashed up from the river of death.
The clock strikes -four and the rosy dawn
soon after begins to look through the lattice
upon the pale form that looks like 4 detained
specter Of the night. Soon "a 9niad house She
viii mistake her ringlt fbr curling sekpents
and thrust her white bond thtopGh the barscf
the prison. and smitf hfr bead, rnbhing 4
back as though t. push the scalp from the
skull, shrieking: my braini my brainp Oh,
stand on from,thatl Why win you 60 sound
ing your way amid the reefs and warning
buoys when there i such vast ocean in
which you may voyage, all sail set?
There Is one other thing shall say this
morning before leave you, whetherv you
want 10 bear it or not That Is, that Icon,
slider the lascivious pictorial literature Of The
day as most tremendous for rnin. There d
no one who can Hike good pictures better than
LIDO. The quickest and most condensed way
Of impressing the public mind is by picture.
What the painter does by his brush for few
favorites the engraver does by his knife
for the million. What the author accom-
plishes by fifty pages the artist does by
flash. The best part of Q painting that costs
$4,000 you may buy for ten cents. Fine
paintings belong to the aristocracy Of art.
Engravings belong to tho democracy OF art
You do well to gather good pictures IN your
homes Spread them before your children
after the tea hour Is past and the evening
circle b gathered. Throw them on the in
valid's couch Etrew them through uhe rail
train to cheer the traveller, on his journey.
Tack them on tho wall d the nursery.
Gather them III albums and portfolios God
speed the good pictures On their way with
ministries Of knowledge and mercyi
But what shall say Of the prostitution Of
this art to purposes Of iniquitE These death
Warrants Of the soul arc 81 every street
corner. They snlite the vision Of the young
man with pollution. Many d young man
buying copy has bought his eternal dis
scomdture. There may Be enough poison in
one bad picture to poison one soul, and that
soul may poison ten, and ten fifty, and the
fifty hundreds, and the hundreds thousands,
until nothing but the measuring line Of
eternity can tell the height, and depth, and
Rhastliness, and horror Of the great undoing.
The work Or death that the wicked author
/ does in whole book the bad engraver may
! do on . half side OF b pictorial. Under the
Ruise Of pure mirth, the young man buys one
Of these sheets. He unrolls it before his COM
rades amid roars Of laughter, but long after
4 the paper Is gone the result may perhaps be
seen In the blasted imaginations OF those who
saw IT The queen OF death holds banquet
every night, and these periodicals are the
printed invitation to her guests, Alas that
the fair brow Of American art should be
bl0tched with this plague spot, and that
philanthropists, bOthering themselves about
smaller evils, should lift up NO united and
vehement voice against this great calamity
Young man, buy not this moral strychnine
for your .soult Pick not up this nest OF
cooled adders for your pocket Patronize no
news stand that keeps theml Have your
room bright with good engravings; but for
nIcH
not one bureau, not one pocket Aman Is no
hhkfaF than the nicfaIra ha loves tn lnok 1T